You know how old, drunk uncles often rag young ones at a party — as Padam Singh Kapri, a retired havildar from the Army, was doing with his nephew, Vinod, at his dad’s 80th birthday. 

At the time, Vinod was planning a film, about a lonely old couple, set and shot at his ancestral village, Berinag, up in the mountains in Garhwal, Uttarakhand.